POST-OCCUPACY EVALUATION AND SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY: A RELATIONSHIP TO BE (RE) DISCUSSED ALWAYS

Abstract

Now a day, the importance of research activities for the development of all fields of the knowledge creates a preoccupation with ethical and social responsibility issues, aspects that cannot be ignored by researchers. Based on this context, this article focuses on researches of Post-Occupation Evaluation (POE), which are more and more present in Architecture and Urbanism, with the objective of subsidizing modification of buildings and new projects. In general, the paper shows the importance of the area to invest in the consolidation of the ethical positioning of researchers, position that will influence all stages of the research work, since the definition of the thematic cut-outs and the methods/techniques for accomplishment of the empirical studies, until presentation of results. Finally, the paper defends the necessity to value/strengthen the role of universities and research institutions’ ethics committees in the regulation of scientific inquiry process. It also points out the importance of defining sensible subcommittees to the specificities of Architecture and Urbanism field.